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Challenging Insular Traditions@@@Dialectology@@@The Study of Dialect: An Introduction to Dialectology

Michael I. Miller, +3 more
- 24 Jan 1982 - 
- Vol. 57, Iss: 4, pp 291
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This article is published in American Speech.The article was published on 1982-01-24. It has received 73 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dialectology.

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Dialect contact and phonological reallocation: “Canadian Raising” in the English Fens

TL;DR: This paper found that speakers in the central Fenland used raised onsets of (ai) before voiceless consonants but open onsets before voiced consonants, morpheme boundaries, and //.
Book

DIALECT LEVELLING IN LIMBURG Structural and Sociolinguistic Aspects

TL;DR: This volume presents a study of the phenomenon of dialect levelling, the process of the reduction of structural variation in an originally rural Limburg dialect of Dutch.
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Proficiency Despite Diglossia: A New Approach for Arabic

TL;DR: This article used Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as the language of choice for most spoken Arabic training at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) of the US State Department, where it is normally taught concurrently with colloquial Arabic.
Book

A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French

TL;DR: This paper examined the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the Parisian population through these various phases of in-migration, dialect-mixing and social stratification from medieval times to the present day.